Hulu's The Great Interview: Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult

Huzzah! The Great is back for a second season on Hulu. With Elle Fanning’s Catherine and Nicholas Hoult’s Peter locked in a battle over who will lead Russia, the new season is full of twists, jokes, and japes.

It’s also full of plenty of huzzahs, which has become a bit of a rallying cry for fans of the show. As Hoult told us in the video interview above, he’s even had it shouted at him from afar.

“It’s a nice thing to be heckled with,” says Hoult, noting “I’ve had like some weird heckles in my life.” Weirdest, Hoult says, were the heckles inspired his performance in About A Boy. “When I was a kid, I sang that Mystikal song, ‘Shake Ya Ass,’ so for years, I would get that song yelled at me when I was going places and stuff. So huzzah’s nice. I get some good heckles.”

Fanning says, in many ways, “huzzah” is sort of a catch-all for the show. “The way [creator] Tony [McNamara] writes it, ‘huzzah’ means so many different things,” says Fanning. “It can be a celebratory thing. It can be questionable. It can be sad. ‘Huzzah’ kind of substitutes any punctuation. It could be after anything.”

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